7-letter words containing e, b, o, a
- bayonet — A bayonet is a long, sharp blade that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
- bayonne — a port in SW France: a commercial centre for the Basque region. Pop: 45 636 (2006)
- beacons — a city in SE New York.
- bear on — to be relevant to; relate to
- beatbox — a drum machine
- becloak — to dress (someone) in a cloak
- bedload — (geology) Sediment that is carried along the bottom of a river or stream, rather than in the current.
- beefalo — a cross between a domestic cow and a buffalo, technically one that is three-eighths buffalo and five-eighths cow, intended for beef production
- begonia — A begonia is a garden plant which has large brightly coloured leaves.
- begorra — an emphatic exclamation, regarded as a characteristic utterance of Irish people
- begroan — to groan at or about
- belabor — If you say that someone belabors the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
- belasco — David1853-1931; U.S. theatrical producer, playwright, & actor
- bellona — the Roman goddess of war
- beograd — Belgrade
- bergamo — a walled city in N Italy, in Lombardy. Pop: 113 143 (2001)
- bloated — If someone's body or a part of their body is bloated, it is much larger than normal, usually because it has a lot of liquid or gas inside it.
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- boarded — a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- boarder — A boarder is a pupil who lives at school during the term.
- boasted — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- boatage — the act of hauling by boat.
- boeotia — a region of ancient Greece, northwest of Athens. It consisted of ten city-states, which formed the Boeotian League, led by Thebes: at its height in the 4th century bc
- bogarde — Sir Dirk, real name Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde. 1920–99, British film actor and writer: his films include The Servant (1963) and Death in Venice (1970). His writings include the autobiographical A Postillion Struck by Lightning (1977) and the novel A Period of Adjustment (1994)
- bogbean — buckbean
- bohemia — a former kingdom of central Europe, surrounded by mountains: independent from the 9th to the 13th century; belonged to the Hapsburgs from 1526 until 1918
- boileau — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. 1636–1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature
- bonaire — an island in the S Caribbean, part of the Netherlands Antilles until their dissolution in 2010, now a special municipality of the Netherlands: one of the Leeward Islands. Chief town: Kralendijk. Pop: 11 537 (2007 est). Area: about 288 sq km (111 sq miles)
- bondage — Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
- bonsela — a present or gratuity
- boolean — of or relating to Boole or his symbolic logic
- bornean — of or relating to Borneo or its inhabitants
- boscage — a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket
- boskage — a mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket.
- bossage — stonework blocked out for later carving.
- bottega — a workshop or studio, particularly that part used by a master artist's assistants or pupils
- boutade — an outburst; sally
- bowhead — a large-mouthed arctic whale, Balaena mysticetus, that has become rare through overfishing but is now a protected species
- boxhead — a heading, usually atthe top of a page, newspaper column, or column of figures, enclosed in a box formed by rules.
- bozeman — a city in S Montana.
- bracero — a Mexican labourer working in the USA, esp one admitted into the country to relieve labour shortages during and immediately after World War II
- brasero — a large metal tray for holding burning coals
- broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
- broader — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- brokage — brokerage.
- bromate — any salt or ester of bromic acid, containing the monovalent group -BrO3 or ion BrO3–
- buoyage — a system of buoys
- cabezon — a large food fish, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus, of North American Pacific coastal waters, having greenish flesh: family Cottidae (bullheads and sea scorpions)